Friday, September 20, 2024

The Latest Football News and Opinions From 90 Minutes Online

Who wants to be a millionaire/Chelsea manager?

It’s two years since Chelsea last won a trophy - that’s how long it has taken the club to get over the loss of Jose Mourinho. Now, with Guus Hiddink’s aversion to the daily grind of club management, they will soon be mourning the loss of another great manager. The question of just who will fill the big Dutchman's boots this summer still remains unanswered.  

 

The main problem for the Blues is a dearth of genuine candidates for the job. With a number of ageing players, the next manager will have to reconstruct the squad considerably over the next two to three years. Coupled with this, he will need to make serious moves towards producing the kind of attacking football Roman Abramovic has long sought. 

 

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Rombling : A Terrible Week for Some

It’s been a pretty bad week for quite a lot of characters in the world of football.  Let’s laugh at their misfortune. If the Karma police come knocking, we can explain to them that the objects of our amusement earn about 100 grand a week and are therefore fair game for our collective ridicule.

 

Darren Fletcher will miss out on another Champions League final after getting unjustly red carded against Arsenal. He looked like the little fat boy who’s had his lunch money stolen on burger cake day, his quivering lip and misty eyes belying the stream of tears that reportedly flowed in the dressing room. You note that Fergy isn’t protesting too hard, because like last year, he probably wasn’t planning on picking him anyway, so the suspension is a convenient way of not having to inform him he’s dropped. Now all Sir needs is some kind of injury to Park Ji-Pea Roller and he’s laughing.

 

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Ligue 1: The end of an era..

The signs are that with four games left of the season, France's Ligue 1 will be crowning a different champion for the first time since the 2000/01 season. In that year FC Nantes won the French title for the eighth time, their history in the intervening years has seen them fail to replicate that success but instead suffer relegation in 2007 with promotion back to Ligue 1 last season.

Meanwhile the last seven Ligue 1 championships have gone to Olympique Lyonnais in what must be the most impressive winning streak in modern European football. Even more so when you consider that they had never won Ligue 1 before the first in that sequence in the 2001/02 season!

 

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Great footballers make great managers?!

There are different ways that professional footballers choose or end up becoming managers after the end of their playing careers. As with anything some paths are easier or more successful than others. What is certain is that Alan Shearer has started his managerial career in probably the deepest end that anyone ever has.

It has been suggested in recent years that there are too many former players becoming managers with too few Uefa coaching badges and qualifications, let alone experience. The fact is that whilst this may be true, not a great deal has changed in this aspect over the years and it's hardly a new phenomenon.

 

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Rombling : Laughing at Newcastle & Middlesbrough

A lot of people are excited about the prospect of Newcastle getting relegated. I’m one of them. I can’t wait. Seeing the legions of overweight, moronic ‘toon’ fans despairing, with looks of sheep like bewilderment as another icon that they were convinced would lead them into the promised land instead guides them down into Championship purgatory will be an image to savour. Brilliant.  

 

There’ll be far less talk about how they’re such a huge club, a veritable sleeping giant. It’ll be interesting to see how much their attendance figures suffer. We probably won’t be informed constantly about how they’re “the best fans in the world”. Newcastle have been run like a joke for so long and such a parody of a club deserves all the contempt that relegation will bring.

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